Water-cooler



(No Model.)

A. H. MERRILL.

Water Cooley.

No. 242,214. Patented IVlay 31,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR H. MERRILL, 0E oRoMWELL, CONNECTICUT.

WATE-R-COOLE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,214, dated May 31,1881,

Application filed April 11, 18H1. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. MERRILL, of Cromwell, in the county ot'Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inWater-Coolers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a fu1l,clear, and exact description ofthe same,which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents a vertical central section. y

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for containingice-water, and from which water is drawn through a faucet, and commonlycalled water-coolers. In the usual construction these are madedouble-walled, with a space between the walls, theinner wall of metal orcoated with porcelain.

It is a well-known fact that water which stands in an earthen vessel ismuch better than that which stands in metal-lined hence many coolers aremade entirely of earthenware, but these are objectionable because oftheir great liability to breakage. l

The object of this invention is to construct a cooler in which thewater-holder shall be earthenware and yet protected both inside and outfrom breakage 5 and it consists in a watercooler having an inner vesselor water-holder made from earthenware with an outer wall ot' metal, soas to leave a space between it and the earthen vessel, combined with aremovable ice-holder constructed so that in placing ice in thewater-holder the pieces of ice cannot come in contact with thewater-holder, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is a vessel made ofearthenware or similar material in any desirableshape. This is set within a metal casing, B, ot` larger diameter,

'so as to leave an annular space, C, between the two, which space may befilled with charcoal or left without filling, as may be desired, butactual contact between the outer casing and the water-holder should beavoided.

The shape ot' the outer casing may be that of common water-coolers.

The usual faucet D is arranged to draw water from the cooler.

E is the ice-holder, which consists of a metal basketvmade from wire orperforated sheetmetal and arranged to be suspended by resting at thetop, as at aand should be provided with a bail, F, by ,whicl1 it can bereadily lifted from the water-holder. This basket or ice-holder preventsany forcible contact of the ice with the walls of the water-holder, sothat all liability to break the holder by dropping ice therein isprevented, and the cooler, in every respect equally as good as the bestearthen coolers, is produced without any possible liability of breakage.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a detachableice-holder for watercoolers and other purposes, for such I am aware isnot new.

I claim- A water-cooler consisting of the earthen ware water-holderA,arranged and supported within an outer casing, B, combined with adetachable suspended ice-holder, E, substantially as de scribed.

ARTHUR H. MERRILL.

Witnesses:

' D. WARD NoR'IHRoP,

CHARLES W. BURR.

